Good weekend

On Saturday I got the final bedroom ceiling painted. We also hung up our blinds in the dining room. On Sunday got the paint up in bedroom. The color is a gray brown. It's the darkest color we've used in the house so far. The ceiling, floors and trim a very light so I think it looks great. I was worried it was going to look like a cave but I like it alot. I am officially tired of painting!

Since September we have gotten soooo much done inside the house. I am ready to start working outside again. Especially now that everything is pretty comfortable inside. My favorite thing to do is garden. I can wait for all of my plants to come back this year! We should have our new wood fence within the next 2 months and my hope is that we have new gutters and paint on the house by October. The more I say it and write it, the more likely it will happen.

Here are some photos of the progress of the bedroom and the dining room windows. We still need to trim the room out.

The Upstairs is ALMOST FINISHED!!!

We had a very productive weekend! I scraped the entire popcorn ceiling pictured below in my last post. Under the popcorn ceiling was 2 layers of wallpaper. Luckily I was able to remove everything in about 5 hours. I've already mudded and primed the ceiling. It should be all ready for paint next weekend. I also primed and painted the walk in closet that had some ugly wood paneling. This is the last room that has been longing for some human touch and it should be complete by next weekend.

We also are also finished sanding the windows in the dining room- so I can FINALLY hang up my $300 worth of roller shades on 2 windows. Geeze.

I'll post photos next week when we are all finished so make sure to check back.

Busy bees

The guest bedroom just keeps getting closer and closer to completion! Quentin framed in a new closet and ran electric. The ceiling has about 1 more coat of mud to go. What do you think of our new closet? We put in his and hers because the closet is shaped so funny that this just makes it alot more accesible.



I have been using antique wood refinisher on our windows in the dining room. I spent $280 on 2 new roller shades for the dining room and I want the windows to be refinished before I install them. It wouldn't make sense to pull them back down 2 months down. So I recruited 2 friends to come over and help me last weekend. Ugh. This is how far we got:

If I ever said the refinisher was easy, I was just happy to be doing something else. It's not the easiest task and it smells horribly. I am almost halfway done so hopefully I'll just get it done quickly. I don't know how much more of it I can bare.